hi John,

 * Re:
   to   David Noon
 JP> I was brought up on mainframe assembler, but could never get the hang
 JP> of it on PC's... The idea that a word was two bytes was something I
 JP> couldn't come to terms with :-).

At first, I was maddend by Intel-people calling objects subjects and visa
versa.  I was only driven over the edge after switching to OS/2 2.0, and
finding people refering to half-words as 'words'...

regards,
         hugo (counting every bit nowadays, besides VSO-order)
[who hacked abstract automatons before he hacked linguistics before he
hacked computers]